Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...once raised to a higher level by the fact that it is not more playing with metrical forms, but an obviously sincere endeavor to express something. Despite its patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this...
Professor S. M. Macvane will lecture tonight on "The Church Crisis in France," at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Macvane has been in France during the past two summers and has been able to see both sides of this very complex and serious crisis of church affairs. The causes leading up to the separation of church and state will be outlined, as well as the results which have followed it. The lecture will be open to the public...
...lecturer pointed out several popular misapprehensions. Industry formerly consisted in the production of articles for the community by its members, and not often was one man able to influence the production of other places. But today, owing to the continual industrial revolutions, the wealth-producing machine has grown complex and often the trade of a district and sometimes of many states is influenced by the will of a small body of men, who are perhaps far off and over whom there is no legal control...
...broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student to take it. It is only when a student neglects some wide field...
...unless by listening and trying to understand it? And the course, so far from being especially for students in history, has so far revealed itself as just the reverse. M. Millet is primarily a man of living affairs, and his talent for bringing out the human essence involved in complex situations is incomparable. For vivacity, naturalness, and "go," he seems to me the most gifted lecturer we have had here in many a long year, and his audience listens as if spellbound...